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'Brilliant, eerie and timely. Nick Hayes has created a stunning visual language to match his modernising of Coleridge's poem; hints of Bewick's woodcuts and Hokusai's waves, but with contemporary anger and edge' --Robert Macfarlane
'Nick Hayes has somehow or other managed to channel and combine the spirits of Coleridge, William Morris, the Romantic poets, most American 60s underground comix artists, probably Eric Gill, possibly a hippy chick who once offered you a bowl of lentils at Glastonbury and doubtlessly the fiercest eco-warrior you can imagine... and succeeded in producing something simultaneously poetical, polemical and frequently beautiful. An extraordinary achievement'
--Martin Rowson
`a work of sustained labour and, often, a thing of soaring beauty...Hayes makes his artwork look like woodcuts, refracting Eric Gill at times, at times the Arts and Crafts school' --The Times, Neel Mukherjee
`With a tone both eerie and humorous, The Rime of the Modern mariner is a terrific recasting of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, fully updated for these modern (read: polluted) times...a glorious tome which manages to be both lush and stark. Ace.' --Time Out, Daneet Steffens
Graphic Novel of the Month: `Is it possible to update or recast such a masterpiece? Hmm. Until last week I would have said almost certainly not...but then I read Nick Hayes' The Rime of the Modern Mariner and all of my doubts fell away. This is a beautiful book...holding this exquisite book in your hands feels akin to a sacramental act...Those who know their Old Testament will think nervously of the prophets and tingle pleasurably with guilt'. --Observer, Rachel Cooke
`The prophetic ending, one of apathy and delusion, is one that will stay with you and perhaps make you think twice about leaving your store-bought packaging blowing in the wind.' --Booktrust
`Poetry and comics have seldom been seen together, but The Rime of the Modern Mariner proves that this is not because the two media are incompatible... Compelling.' --Irish Times
'Nick Hayes has somehow or other managed to channel and combine the spirits of Coleridge, William Morris, the Romantic poets, most American 60s underground comix artists, probably Eric Gill, possibly a hippy chick who once offered you a bowl of lentils at Glastonbury and doubtlessly the fiercest eco-warrior you can imagine... and succeeded in producing something simultaneously poetical, polemical and frequently beautiful. An extraordinary achievement'
--Martin Rowson
`a work of sustained labour and, often, a thing of soaring beauty...Hayes makes his artwork look like woodcuts, refracting Eric Gill at times, at times the Arts and Crafts school' --The Times, Neel Mukherjee
`With a tone both eerie and humorous, The Rime of the Modern mariner is a terrific recasting of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, fully updated for these modern (read: polluted) times...a glorious tome which manages to be both lush and stark. Ace.' --Time Out, Daneet Steffens
Graphic Novel of the Month: `Is it possible to update or recast such a masterpiece? Hmm. Until last week I would have said almost certainly not...but then I read Nick Hayes' The Rime of the Modern Mariner and all of my doubts fell away. This is a beautiful book...holding this exquisite book in your hands feels akin to a sacramental act...Those who know their Old Testament will think nervously of the prophets and tingle pleasurably with guilt'. --Observer, Rachel Cooke
`The prophetic ending, one of apathy and delusion, is one that will stay with you and perhaps make you think twice about leaving your store-bought packaging blowing in the wind.' --Booktrust
`Poetry and comics have seldom been seen together, but The Rime of the Modern Mariner proves that this is not because the two media are incompatible... Compelling.' --Irish Times
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This beautiful graphic novel recasts the shimmering horror of Coleridge's famous story into a contemporary context.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It is rare to come accross such a well made book in this austere age, cloth bound spine, stiff illustrated cover and "hand written" sleeve notes. The book itself is a joy to hold and look upon.
The content too is truly amazing, easily read in a single sitting, so will not deter young minds closed to the more traditional style of the Coleridge original. After ripping at speed through the book one cannot help but be dragged back time and again to look at the pictures and more importantly their juxtaposition with the images to enjoy the effect created.
I cannot summarise as well as the previous reviewer, who adequately summarises the book. So will not try however this beutifully crafteed "thing", comic, poem, cautionary tale, has had an effect on me that will live long in my mind.
Every home should have a copy of this book.
John Cracknell
The content too is truly amazing, easily read in a single sitting, so will not deter young minds closed to the more traditional style of the Coleridge original. After ripping at speed through the book one cannot help but be dragged back time and again to look at the pictures and more importantly their juxtaposition with the images to enjoy the effect created.
I cannot summarise as well as the previous reviewer, who adequately summarises the book. So will not try however this beutifully crafteed "thing", comic, poem, cautionary tale, has had an effect on me that will live long in my mind.
Every home should have a copy of this book.
John Cracknell
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is given a contemporary interpretation in Nick Hayes' "The Rime of the Modern Mariner", a tale as haunting as Coleridge's but also beautifully illustrated.
The Modern Mariner starts out as a man in search of whalebone to fashion dominoes out of to decorate his house with, and so goes to sea with a fishing boat to get his whalebone. The tedium gets to him and he brings out his gun to shoot at the floating detritus of the sea to entertain him but these targets quickly become boring. And then he sees a bird. He shoots it, not knowing the superstition of sailors and the meaning of the albatross. As soon as the bird hits the sea, the ship is doomed.
Hayes throws his Mariner through a series of nightmarish scenes as the Mariner begins to see the results of his, and the rest of humanity's, consequences on the world. The seas clogged with plastic that won't biodegrade, follies such as the Titanic rusting on the seabed, the toxic chemicals we pump into our environment without a thought for what it does to our planet, the dying trees, the blackening skies...
And this is where I should say that the real highlight of the book is Hayes' artwork. It reminded me of artists as wide ranging as Alastair Gray to Katsushika Hokusai to Martin Rowson, but Hayes has fashioned his own unique imprint onto the book. Each page has so much detail and is designed so beautifully, no simple panel layout but a sweeping, flowing exuberant expression of illustration. There were so many pages I would stare at and be utterly caught up in the drawing. Nick Hayes is an original talent and just a short perusal of the book will convince anyone of that.
Hayes does a fantastic job as well of narrating this story through poetry, rhyming all the way through. The words never got in the way of the story but you could appreciate that they were well thought out and planned carefully even without the illustrations to accompany them.
The book is at once a compelling and haunting narrative of one man's realisation of his actions on his surroundings and also an expression of an artist's anger at the thoughtlessness of human kind on our environment. In these points the book succeeds marvellously and is a resounding and memorable story of 21st century excess. Wonderful art and a haunting narrative that Coleridge would have been proud of, "The Rime of the Modern Mariner" is a must read for all fans of good books.
The Modern Mariner starts out as a man in search of whalebone to fashion dominoes out of to decorate his house with, and so goes to sea with a fishing boat to get his whalebone. The tedium gets to him and he brings out his gun to shoot at the floating detritus of the sea to entertain him but these targets quickly become boring. And then he sees a bird. He shoots it, not knowing the superstition of sailors and the meaning of the albatross. As soon as the bird hits the sea, the ship is doomed.
Hayes throws his Mariner through a series of nightmarish scenes as the Mariner begins to see the results of his, and the rest of humanity's, consequences on the world. The seas clogged with plastic that won't biodegrade, follies such as the Titanic rusting on the seabed, the toxic chemicals we pump into our environment without a thought for what it does to our planet, the dying trees, the blackening skies...
And this is where I should say that the real highlight of the book is Hayes' artwork. It reminded me of artists as wide ranging as Alastair Gray to Katsushika Hokusai to Martin Rowson, but Hayes has fashioned his own unique imprint onto the book. Each page has so much detail and is designed so beautifully, no simple panel layout but a sweeping, flowing exuberant expression of illustration. There were so many pages I would stare at and be utterly caught up in the drawing. Nick Hayes is an original talent and just a short perusal of the book will convince anyone of that.
Hayes does a fantastic job as well of narrating this story through poetry, rhyming all the way through. The words never got in the way of the story but you could appreciate that they were well thought out and planned carefully even without the illustrations to accompany them.
The book is at once a compelling and haunting narrative of one man's realisation of his actions on his surroundings and also an expression of an artist's anger at the thoughtlessness of human kind on our environment. In these points the book succeeds marvellously and is a resounding and memorable story of 21st century excess. Wonderful art and a haunting narrative that Coleridge would have been proud of, "The Rime of the Modern Mariner" is a must read for all fans of good books.
Format:Hardcover
A peacock's cry from heffer's lungs,
A raw nadiral moan,
With a ruminant scream and a numinal gleam
A whale emerged from the gloam
Heifer? Numinous?? As for nadiral, that truly hits bottom
Handsome though it is, this volume's rollicking text, which sweeps you along possibly too fast past the graphics (sometimes half a line per page), ultimately leaves you shipwrecked. Not that the 'much loved' Coleridgean original was ever High Art (IMHO) but this is abject doggerel - though it would be fascinating to see if Henning Ahrens can reflect Germany's rich balladry tradition in his version
A raw nadiral moan,
With a ruminant scream and a numinal gleam
A whale emerged from the gloam
Heifer? Numinous?? As for nadiral, that truly hits bottom
Handsome though it is, this volume's rollicking text, which sweeps you along possibly too fast past the graphics (sometimes half a line per page), ultimately leaves you shipwrecked. Not that the 'much loved' Coleridgean original was ever High Art (IMHO) but this is abject doggerel - though it would be fascinating to see if Henning Ahrens can reflect Germany's rich balladry tradition in his version
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Wonderful book - what an unexpected gem.
This is an unexpected gem of a book with beautiful artwork and a great story written as a poem. Quality binding and paper with a ribbon bookmark, and entirely delicious. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Partridge
Simply fantastic
There really is so little wrong with this book! I simply loved the illustration; I loved the story, taking as a source-text the original epic poem; I loved the quality of the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. J. Gardner
Important & Moving But....
My expectations of this important graphic/rhyme book were a little disappointed on 'experiencing' it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by D Webster
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